‘Madame Internet’ Wins Worst Image of the Yr Award

Madame Web is the worst movie of the 12 months.

No less than that was the decide for that doubtful honor by the Razzie Awards, the longest-running bad-movie various to the Oscars. Yearly the members of the Razzies (which is actually anybody who desires to pay to be a member) votes on their picks for the worst movies of the 12 months. And this 12 months the consensus alternative for the dregs of cinema was the disastrous Spider-Man spinoff starring Dakoja Johnson as a clairvoyant EMT employee.

Johnson herself received the Razzies’ Worst Actress prize, and the movie additionally received the Worst Screenplay award.

The opposite large Razzie winners of the 12 months (we’re utilizing that time period loosely right here, after all) included Jerry Seinfeld’s Unfrosted, which was given the awards for Worst Actor (for Seinfeld himself) and Worst Supporting Actress (for Amy Schumer), and the infamous Joker: Folie à Deux, which obtained the awards for Worst Sequel and for Worst Onscreen Couple for stars Joaquin Phoenix and Woman Gaga.

With only a few historic exceptions, the winners of the Razzies sometimes avoid the ceremony and ignore the awards completely. However considered one of this 12 months’s winners determined to embrace his prize.

That’s Francis Ford Coppola, who received the Worst Director Razzie for his Megalopolis, a expensive (however extraordinarily bold) sci-fi flop that Coppola financed himself with hundreds of thousands of {dollars} from his private fortune after a long time of makes an attempt to mount the movie by means of extra conventional financing.

“I’m thrilled to just accept the Razzie award” wrote Coppola on his Instagram account. “On this wreck of a world in the present day, the place ART is given scores as if it had been skilled wrestling, I selected to NOT comply with the gutless guidelines laid down by an trade so afraid of danger that regardless of the large pool of younger expertise at its disposal, could not create footage that shall be related and alive 50 years from now. What an honor to face alongside an ideal and courages filmmaker like Jacques Tati who impoverished himself fully to make considered one of cinema’s most beloved failures, PLAYTIME!”

“Allow us to remind ourselves,” Coppola added, “that box-office is just about cash, and like struggle, stupidity, and politics has no true place in our future.”

READ MORE: The Worst Razzie Nominees in History

Playtime by no means received a Razzie (the awards weren’t even created till 1981) however nonetheless I love Coppola’s defiant spirit, similar to I admired that very same spirit in Megalopolis, even when the film itself was often incomprehensible and infrequently weird. In different phrases: A straightforward goal for the Razzies however not one of many actually unhealthy movies of 2024. (Madame Internet, then again, was actually and actually horrible.)

Right here’s the complete listing of winners from this 12 months’s Razzies:

Worst Image
Borderlands
Joker: Folie a Deux
Madame Internet – WINNER
Megalopolis
Reagan

Worst Actor
Jack Black, Expensive Santa
Zachary Levi, Harold and the Purple Crayon
Joaquin Phoenix, Joker: Folie a Deux
Dennis Quaid, Reagan
Jerry Seinfeld, Unfrosted – WINNER

Worst Actress
Cate Blanchett, Borderlands
Woman Gaga, Joker: Folie a Deux
Bryce Dallas Howard, Argylle
Dakota Johnson, Madame Internet – WINNER
Jennifer Lopez, Atlas

Worst Supporting Actor
Jack Black, Borderlands
Kevin Hart, Borderlands
Shia LaBeouf, Megalopolis
Tahar Rahim, Madame Internet
Jon Voight, Megalopolis, Reagan, Shadow Land & Strangers – WINNER

Worst Supporting Actress
Ariana DeBose, Argylle and Kraven the Hunter
Leslie Anne Down, Reagan
Emma Roberts, Madame Internet
Amy Schumer, Unfrosted – WINNER
FKA twigs, The Crow

Worst Director
S.J. Clarkson, Madame Internet
Francis Ford Coppola, Megalopolis – WINNER
Todd Phillips, Joker: Folie a Deux
Eli Roth, Borderlands
Jerry Seinfeld, Unfrosted

Worst Onscreen Combo
Any Two Obnoxious Characters (However Particularly Jack Black), Borderlands
Any Two Unfunny “Comedic Actors,” Unfrosted
The Complete Solid of Megalopolis
Joaquin Phoenix and Woman Gaga, Joker: Folie a Deux – WINNER
Dennis Quaid and Penelope Ann Miller, Reagan

Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-Off or Sequel
The Crow
Joker: Folie a Deux – WINNER
Kraven the Hunter
Mufasa: The Lion King
Insurgent Moon: Half 2 — The Scargiver

Worst Screenplay
Joker: Folie a Deux
Kraven the Hunter
Madame Internet – WINNER
Megalopolis
Reagan